Earth's "gold kitchen" lies deep beneath the seafloor. Island arcs, whose volcanoes form above subduction zones where one ...

Learn how subduction zones become enriched in gold through repeated melting of Earth's mantle.

The first step in gold’s journey does not happen in a mine, a fault, or a hydrothermal vent. It begins far deeper, in mantle ...

These findings help to explain why many of the world’s richest gold deposits are associated with subduction zones – regions where oceanic plates descend into the Earth’s interior. The study has now ...